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Friday, July 6, 2012

How to be a successful social butterfly





Have you ever really thought about it? Those social butterflies that flit, fly and flirt hopping from one flower to another, whose delicate and alluring patterns both attract others and camouflage themselves. Have you ever thought about where they come from?

The natural state of things works as follows. A larva, a caterpillar, whose time is mostly spent searching for food, then finds itself in search of the perfect place to form a chrysalis. Usually on the underside of a leaf, it will transform into an immovable form. After a time, an incredible metamorphosis has occurred and what once was a leaf-eating caterpillar has become an alluring butterfly.

Perhaps us mere humans need something similar. We need to stay in solitude, in the underside of our leaves for a time. We need to build an immovable form around us to grow wings and form our own patterns. We’re also part of nature after all and we cannot escape its demands. 


All that is to say, that perhaps a successful social butterfly comes from someone who occasionally spends some time alone. Who creates a chrysalis and within that transforms into the creature they want to be.


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